Magic: The Gathering: 10 Most Powerful Artifacts In 2020 Standard
3. Embercleave
RDW stands for red deck wins – the name given to red decks since time immemorial. The philosophy is simple, summon cheap efficient creatures such as goblins or mercenaries and attack quickly, overwhelming your opponent before you finish them off with a flurry of burn spells to the face.
Embercleave is a legendary artifact that rewards you for playing to the strengths of red, normally a six mana artifact is not where we want to be in our red deck but the more creatures you’re attacking with the lower the casting cost of Embercleave. It also has flash which means you can surprise your opponent with it during combat.
Attaching itself for FREE when it comes into play it grants one of your creatures +1+1, double strike and trample which means we can plough through our opponent’s defence and smash face with ease.